Lately

So yesterday was a fairly good day!  Girls got to spend time with Poppi and Grammy as they came over mid-afternoon to spend time with them while Jeremy and I went to one of his work dinners.  Madi told me today that she misses being the only kid.  Could see that.  After all she had many years where it was just her.

Today started off fairly fine.  Girls all slept well.  So I decided to venture out to Ikea with the three girls by myself (bad idea by the way - don't do it if you're ever tempted to!!!!).  Julia has no dresser and we've been getting her clothes out of bins for about a week or so since we sold the crib/dresser set.  So we needed to get another Hemnes storage unit and some bins to put clothes in.  Got what we needed.  Had Julia screaming through the store as she didn't want Madi to push her cart but I couldn't have Madi push the cart with the long materials as she is a crazy cart pusher and at least Julia's cart was smaller.

We made it through Ikea, went to Target to Julia her new big girl panties as she is basically potty trained and refusing to wear pull-ups anymore and then returned home.  The girls were home for a little while - lunch, time to write and play without electronics - and then we went to the dentist.

Madi got her cavity filled and the three sealants done and a panoramic film done of her teeth.  All went great!  Over $400 appointment paid for my Medicaid.  Praise the Lord!!!  Such a blessing.

The girls had some computer time after the visit for a few hours.  Then dinner and time for bed.  I was hoping to make it to Madi's room tonight and thinking Julia would go down easy since her nap was short and she was so tired.  But Julia would not stop talking non-stop.  I kept saying "Jules!  It's night time and you have to stop talking and lay down nice and quiet."  To which she would reply by either flopping down on her bed and laughing or crying out of having her feelings hurt.  She literally talked for an hour nonstop.  Finally got her to sleep, but fell asleep myself too.

Tomorrow I'm not sure what we're doing.  More potty training for Jules and getting ready for camp on Monday.